Communities of Practice and Ethnographic Fieldwork

Lee Cabatingan is Associate Professor in the Departments of Criminology, Law and Society, and Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, USA. Susan Bibler Coutin is Professor in the Departments of Criminology, Law and Society, and Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, USA. Deyanira Nevárez Martínez is Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Michigan State University, USA.

Introduction: Learning and Teaching Ethnography in Real Time through Supportive Communities of Practice; Part I: Is it Even Possible? 1. Is it Possible to Train Ethnographers in Programs Where Most Faculty and Students Use Other Methods? 2. Is it Possible to Conduct Ethnographic Research on Intimate Partner Violence as a Survivor of Intimate Partner Violence? 3. Is it Possible to be a Parent and Ethnographer? 4. Is it Possible to Foster Equitable Urban Planning Through Ethnography?; Part II: How Can We Survive these Times? 5. How and Why Should I Continue Ethnographic Fieldwork when Challenges Abound? 6. How Can Dissertation Research Survive a Global Pandemic? Reimagining Ethnography through Remote Data Collection 7. How Can We Survive the Challenges of Accessing Fieldsites and Harnessing Emotion as a Tool for Worldmaking? 8. How Can Ethnographers Survive Methodological, Ethical, and Practical Challenges in the Field? Adaption Through Deepening and Expanding Connections 9. How Can We Survive These Times by Centering Care? Archival Research on Anti-Blackness and Black Resistance in the United States; Part III: What Do We Do Now? 10. What Do We Do as Activists Practicing Ethnography and Law? 11. What Do We Do to Build Collaborative Learning Environments and Practices as Diasporic Indigenous Researchers? 12. What Do We Do to Learn Collaborative Visual Analysis for Ethnographic Practice? 13. What Do We Do When Ethnography Becomes a Political Project?